Racer-Roni

The Racer-Roni is a race car from the BotBots continuity.

Guaranteed to burn up the racetrack and the roof of your mouth

Go greased lightning! The Racer-Roni wedges its way into pole position for the Hunger Hubs! Get in its way and its crust-cannon will slap you silly with salty sardines.

Fiction

BotBots cartoon

At some point before his exile from the Hunger Hubs, Burgertron built the Racer-Roni and hid it in a restroom. When he saw that the Ruckus Rally was being held, he brought it out to the Lost Bots, intending to enter and win the other squads' respect by winning the race, and held auditions to see who among the Lost Bots would make the best "launcher" to man the crust-cannon. Bonz-Eye proved to be a flawless launcher, and much to Burgertron's chagrin, Kikmee proved to be an amazing driver... but Burgertron still insisted he drive, after all it was his car. During the race, they traded positions and insults with the Sugar Shocks and Gamer Geeks, but Burgertron skidded out on the fountain and dropped into last place... then had Kikmee "tag in" to take his place as driver. She quickly managed to catch up to the Outta Controller and Sugar Sonic Speedster, and took first place by a split second. Unfortunately, the trophy went to the Hunger Hubs, since Burgertron had forgotten to change its official squad registration. While Spud Muffin happily took the trophy, he left the racer, and the Lost Bots decided to go on a joyride for pure fun. The Ruckus Rally

The Lost Bots then used the Racer-Roni to transport them around the mall during their short-lived and ill-fated stint as the "Crime Solvers". Crime and Bun-ishment

When Dave the security guard lost control of his rocket skates (he was pretending to be a robot to lure the BotBots out, just go with it), the Lost Bots used the Racer-Roni to catch up with him, forming a Bot pyramid that got Dimlit high enough to cut the wires on Dave's suit, stopping his unintended rampage. Agent Smartlit

Toys

BotBots

• Racer-Roni (Vehicle pack, 2023)

• Series: 6

Part of the sixth Series of BotBots, the Racer-Roni transforms from a slice of pepperoni pizza into a race car. Moving the larger pepperoni into rear-wheel-mode leaves two "drivers" spaces to place BotBots figures, with (nonfunctional) steering wheels and french-fry seat backs; the seatbacks fold forward for pizza mode, but do not need to be, and in fact the wheel-pegs fit in a little better if you don't. The spaces left by the front pepperoni-wheels can also "seat" BotBots, but they're even less secure placements. The left side of the crust pops off to become a (non-firing) sardine cannon that can be mounted on a moving socket to alter its positioning. You could probably wedge a BotBot into that ditch next to the cannon if you wanna.

Though it is not shown in the instructions, the wheels can be pulled out a bit more to make them free-spinning in racecar mode.

This vehicle also comes with four BotBots figures: Dud Spud, and the set-exclusive figures Ulf the Orange, Veggietron, and Grease Drip.

Notes

• The Racer-Roni's instruction sheet has a couple of interesting quirks: it calls the vehicle the "Race-A-Roni" (presumably an early name and reference to the "Rice-A-Roni" food product), plus it's marked as a "Series 7" product.
• The Racer-Roni, and its wave-mate the Outta Controller, are two of only three BotBots toy sets without any blind-packed figures in it.